If only I was Endymion...

The end is near...The end of days... thats what the rain gods seem to believe anyway. The last 2 days, it has rained like the gods know of no tomorrow. IIT has been totally cut off to the outside world what with Mandakini hostel's ground floor completely drowned( a repeat of events 4 years ago), and we Alakites also suffering from no cable and internet.

This being the information age,The complete lack of any information is disconcerting!
1.I havent checked my mail for the last 2 days, something almost unheard of here in IIT.
2. Havent logged onto orkut.. God knows there are plenty of scraps to reply to.
All said and done, the only positive I can think of is that I had plenty of time (for a change), plenty to catch up on reading, on movies and on thinking(do not LOL gentle reader, its true I do think a little sometimes). Although ideally I should have utilised the time for mugging for Physics GRE, but this kind of weather is just too (in?)glorious and positively somnolent for any studying to be done.

I watched The Godfather after having had the movie on my comp for a record time! Enjoyed it although I felt certain parts were a drag.
I also watched the last scene of "Scent Of A Woman" for the umpteenth time where "when in doubt, *uck" Al Pacino sizzles as a blind Colonel.

Although I have managed to pass the time pretty well and just about survive to tell my tale of woe(of not orkutting), but what rankles is the realisation that a slave I have become to technology, how dependant I am on it for information and how restless I feel just because I cant check a few damn scraps.
Instead of appreciating the beauty and power of nature, here I was cooped up in my room watching movies on an ugly, no less idioter Box and fretting about all things big and small. Although I knew about my addiction to the Internet beforehand, but never before have the withdrawal symptoms struck me so severely before.
This cannot and should not continue!!
I have now resolved to make more time for the beauties of nature, for observing the beauty and fragility of it all!!
To contemplate the awesome destructive power of nature and man's helplessness in the face of nature's fury.
To realise the insignificance of mankind in the grander scheme of things.

And most of all to realise, in the words of Keats that
even in a world of ugliness, beauty can triumph!

I would like to end by quoting a few lines from his famous Endymion...

A Thing of Beauty

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o’er-darkened ways
Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits.

Easy to write it all down, but I dont know how I am gonna keep my resolution. Maybe to do that, I will have to go back in time and become a child again, maybe only in the age of innocence can you truly observe and appreciate the beauty of innocence, of nature.

But I am gonna try
for sure, I am gonna try!